The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1887-01-11
SCIENTIFIC TRUTH
REGARDING THE FUNCTIONS OF AN
lMPOKIA Mt ORGAN.
or Which tho Public Knows BUT Little
Worthy Of Careful Consideration.

lMfONIAN MI
or Which H tho P%blic Know. but Little
To The Edi'or Of iAs Scientific American:
WI you permit us to make kno'On to the
public the Jucts zoe haze learned during the
human Kidneys and the organs 1Chich dts
cused Kidneys so easily break dorUnf You
are conducting q Scientific paper. aud are
appropriated ercept in favor Of TRUTH. II
'Code" Standing U0uld ddmit these facts,
for reru Obvious reasons.
II. Fl. WARNER d CO.,, ,
Proprietors Of "Warner's Safe Cure"
That we may emphasize and clearly OK
plain the relation the kidneys sustain to the
general health, and how much is dependent
upon them, We propose. metaphorically
place iSin the wash-bowl before us, and ex-
amino it for the public benefit.
You will imagine that we have before us a
body shaped like a Lean, smooth and glisten-
ing, aboutfour inches in length, two in width,
and one in thickness. 1t ordinarily weighs
in the adult male about five ounces, but is
somewhat lighter in the female. A small
organ! you say. But understand, the body
quarts Of blood, Of waich crery drop passes
through these filters or Sctvers, as they may
be called, many times a day as often as
through the heart, making q complete revo.
VIZ LII t"Fee "tNVGpS. FROM Inc DlOOu
they separate the waste material, working
away steadily night and day. sleeping or
waking, tireless as the heart itself, and fully
OF as much vital Importance; removing inn
hour. or about fo%rty-n:ne barrels each day,
or !, rs hogSheads a year! What a wonder
that the kidneys can last any length Of time
under this prodigious strain, treated and
neglected as they are!
We slice this deli, ate organ open length
wise with our knife. and will roughly de-
scribe its interior.
We find it to be Of a reddish-brown color,
soft and easily torn; filled with hundreds OF
little tubes. short and thrca like, starting
from the arteries, ending in q little tuft about
midway from the outside opening into a
cavity OF considerable size, which is called
the pelyls OF, roughly s%!eaking, a sac, which
further undergo publication before it passes
down from here into the ~ureters, and so on
to the outside of the body. These little tubes
are the filters which do their work auto
nlatically, and right here is ,chere the dis
ease Of the kidney first begins.
Doing the vast amount of work which
they are obliged to, from the slightest irreg-
ularIty IN DIR habits, from cod, from high
living, from stimulants or a thousand md
one other causes which occur every day, they
become somewhat weakened in tleir nerve
fore.
What is tho RESULT Congestion or stoprage
OF the current of blood in the small blood
vessels surrounding them, which become
booked; these delivate membranes are irri-
teted: inflammation is set up, then pus is
formed. which collects in the pelvis or sa-;
the tubes are at first partially, and soon are
totally unable to do their work. The pelvic
sac goes on d~istending with this corruption,
pressing upon the blood vessels. AL this
time, remember, the blood, which is entering
the kidneys to be filtered, is passing hrou01
this terrible, disgusting pus, for it cannot
take any other route!
Stop n think Of it for a moment! Do
You realize the Importance, nay the vital ne
cessity, of having the kidneys in or,lert Con
structed, no matter how little, that you can
have pure Hood and escape disens.T 1t
would be just as reasonable to expect. if q
Pest'house were set across Broadway and
countless Thousands were compelled TO go
through its pestiiential doors, an escape from
contagion and disease. as for one to expect
the blood to escape pollution when con family
running through a diseased kidney.
Now, what is the RESULT Why, that the
blood takes up and deposits this poison as it
sweeps along INTO every organ, into every
inch OF muscle, TISSUE, flesh AMI bone, from
your head to your feet. And whenever, from
hereditary influence or otherwise, some part
OF the body Is weaker than another. a count
less train of diseases is established. such as
consumption in weak lungs, dyspepsia where
there Is a delicate stomach; nervousness, in
sanity, paralysis or heart disease in those
who have weak nerves.
!he hfdrt must soon feel the effects of the
poison, as it requires pure blood 10 keen it
IN right acton: 1t increases its stroke in
natural stimulus wanting. in its endeavor to
crowd the impure blood through this OBJ.
structlon, causing Eain, palpitation, OF an
out-of-breath feeling. Unnatural as this
forced labor is. the heart must soon falter,
becoming walker and weaker until one day
u SuddentH stops, and death from apparent
heart disease" is the verdict.
But the medical profession. learned and
olgnlfied, call these disea ses by high sounding
names, treat them alone, aud patients die
Tor the arteries are carrying slo,U death to
the dHected part, constantly addinp f,el
brought from these suppurating, pus-laden
kidneys which here in our wash. bowl are
very putretaction itself, and which should
have been cured first.
But this Is not all the kidneys nave to do.
Tor you must remember that each adult take;
ABOUT seven pounds Of nourishment cvery
S"entyL1oir hours to supply the waste of the
equal to the quantity taken. This, too, the
kidneYs have to separate from the blood with
all other de:omToSin~ matter.
But you say: "My kidneys are all right.
nave no pain in tbs back" Mistaken mani
People die Of kidney disease of so bad a char
acter that the organs are rotten, and yet
ache!
Whya Because the disease begins, as we
have shown, in the interior Of the kidney,
where there are fe,C heroes Of feeling to con-
vey the sensation Of pain. Why this is so
we may never know.
When you consider their great work, the
delii acy of their structure, the ease with
which they are deranged, can you wonder at
the lli-health Of our men and womena Health
and long life cannot he expected when so vi
tai an organ is impaired. No wo ider some
writers cay We arc d~egenerating. Don't YOU
see the great, the extreme Importance of
keeping. this machinery in working order3
Could the finest engine do even a fractional
part OF this work, without attention from
the engineerl Don't you see how dangerous
this hidden disease is! It is lurking about
us constantly, without giving any Indication
Of its presence.